--- a/commitwatcher/commit.py	Tue Nov 05 03:03:06 2013 -0800
+++ b/commitwatcher/commit.py	Wed Nov 06 22:58:07 2013 -0800
@@ -4,9 +4,19 @@
 
 class Commit(object):
 
-    def __init__(self, message, datetime, author, paths, revision):
+    def __init__(self, message, datetime, author, files, revision):
         self.message = message
         self.datetime = datetime
         self.author= author
         self.paths = paths
         self.revision = revision
+
+    def ancestry(self, ):
+        sep = '/' # unix/url-style separators
+        path = path.split('/')
+        paths = []
+        while path:
+            paths.append(sep.join(path))
+            path.pop()
+        return paths
+